As Oracle announces its new Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) Suite 11g, the company also states that it is committed to the investments of Sun customers in business process management technology. Specifically, the BPM technology within the Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS or JCAPS) is promised to be protected, and migrations will not be forced as Oracle moves toward transitioning to a converged product line over time.

Oracle Exadata V2 for SAP is momentarily under evaluation, and it is expected to be certified by early 2011. The speed of the adoption process depends on customer demand. Interested SAP users can make their desire known by downloading a request form, answering a few questions, and sending the completed form to the noted individuals listed on the form.

Teleportation first made its appearance in the VirtualBox 3.1 release. It basically allows users to move running virtual machines between hosts without interruption. This means users can move running virtual machines between different hosts, across different architectures, different host operating systems, and between servers and clients. Learn more about the "cool feature" in a blog entry by Sentayehu Seifu who defines the feature's capabilities and shows how to set up a VirtualBox host.

Writing in CNET Reviews, Topher Kessler takes a comprehensive approach to the Virtualization of the Mac OS X Server with VirtualBox, Version 3.2, beginning with a link to Apple's EULA requirements just to ensure the legality of the installation.

Updated Oracle Solaris learning paths are now available on the Oracle University site. The company states that these updates are aimed at continuing to align to principal system administration roles, culminating in an Oracle Solaris Certification to help administrators validate their proficiency.

ODFDOM is a free OpenDocument Format (ODF) library. Its purpose is to provide an easy common way to create, access and manipulate ODF files, without requiring detailed knowledge of the ODF specification. It is designed to provide the ODF developer community with an easy lightwork programming API portable to any object-oriented language. A new version of ODFDOM was released this month. ODFDOM 0.8.5 of the Java implementation provides more than a dozen patches/bug fixes and two new features.

The fifth installment in Janice J. Heiss's Developer Insight Series of interviews is devoted to talks with Adam Bien, Alan Williamson, and Kirk Pepperdine, who discuss cloud computing from the perspective of the Java Champion.

Wondering what sessions are scheduled for Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, and Oracle Develop 2010? Check the live Content Catalogs that have been posted and show just what type of content will be headlining the almost 2,000 sessions currently booked for the event. If a session is not named that someone would like to attend, the Oracle Mix Community provides a tool called Suggest-a-Session for submitting and voting on sessions.

A veteran of nearly a year's effort involving Exadata V2 performance projects, Glenn Fawcett blogs on the use of external tables as the fastest method of loading data into a data warehouse. As he writes, "With the size and power of Exadata, businesses are creating larger and larger data warehouses. There will often be dozens of machines that collect and stage data for ingest by the data warehouse. So this means the staging area for these flat-files must be huge, real fast, and accessible from multiple networks." External tables fill the bill, according to Fawcett.

NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces the JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for visually building JavaFX GUI applications, similar to the Swing GUI builder for Java SE applications. Additional highlights include OSGi interoperability for NetBeans Platform applications and support for developing OSGi bundles with Maven; support for JavaFX SDK 1.3, PHP Zend framework, and Ruby on Rails 3.0; as well as improvements to the Java Editor, Java Debugger, issue tracking, and more.